The+Failed+American+Dream

 Our Quiz: (To see answers, highlight the text.) a) rhetorical questions   b)  epsitrophe c) antithesis   d)  hortative sentences // a) //T = Tone  // b)  //A = Appeals // c) //P = Passion for people  // d)  //A = Accepting // e) //C = Change
 * 1) What is a common motif between the two speeches?
 * 2) The lack of wisdom or impatience of youth
 * 3) Which of the following served to reinforce the theme made by the Chief of the Nez Perce in his speech?
 * 1) Answer: B
 * 2) What equation is represented between the two speeches and identify what each part of the equation means?
 * 3) Tap2=ac
 * 1) List two appeals present in //Sacred Soil// and One of the appeals in //I will fight no more forever//. Briefly explain how those appeals are affective in each speech.

Tone And Appeals:

 ** T **** à  ** Tone  - uses a sorrowful and heartfelt tone to give audience emphasis on the connection to the land and people  - “//every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every every every valley, every plain and grove has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in my days long vanished//”  - **Key Words: soil, vanished, every**   **-//“//**//he who led the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death//” **-** Again, word choice adds to the effect of the tone. **-** **Key words: little children, freezing to death**  ** A **** à ** Appeals Did anyone find an appeal that struck out most?  <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> -  Mythos <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"> à  portrays poetic narrative and traditional comfort of the Native American people <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> - //“My words are like the stars that never change…tribe follows tribe and nation follows nation like the waves of a sea”// <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> - Incorporates nature and humanity together poetically showing his love for the land and gives off that heartfelt feeling of tradition. <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> - Pathos <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"> à throughout the whole sppech, he gives the sleepy, beautiful poetry of nature and people, but often gave the sharp stab of aggression <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">- //Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man whose God walked and talked with him as friend with friend cannot be exempt from the common destiny…these shores will swarm with invisible dead of my tribe and when your children’s children think they are alone in the field…they will not be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people for the dead are not powerless.// <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> -  Logos <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"> à  Acceptance of the reality of the situation <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> - //“His people are many. They are like the grass that covers vast prairies. My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm swept plain… I will not dwell on as we too may have been somewhat to blame”// <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> -  Ethos <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"> à  Chief of the tribe, fatherly figure “my people,” description of nature (knows the land) <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">** P ****<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"> à  ** Passion toward the People <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> -“//my people, our people, your people”// <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">// -// In Fight no more forever: //my heart is sad and sick…I want to have time to look for my children”// <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> -In Sacred Soil: //Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people// <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">** AC ****<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"> à  ** “//I think my people will accept it and will retire to the reservation you offer them. Then we will dwell apart in peace”// <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> //<span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“I will fight no more forever. My heart is sad and sick." // <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Rhetoric, Themes, and American Dream :
 * <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">TAP2 = AC **

To study, it is recommended that you identify the devices listed on this page: <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">on the list of following important quotes from "This Sacred Soil" and the entirity of "I Will Fight No More Forever": <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> || <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“Then in reality he will be our father and we his children. But can that ever be? Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine! He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface and leads him by the hand as a father leads an infant son…How then can we be brothers? How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness?” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“But why should I mourn at the untimely fate of my people? Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been. Thus it was when the white man began to push our forefathers ever westward.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished. Even the rocks, which seem to be dumb and dead as the swelter in the sun along the silent shore, thrill with memories of stirring events connected with the lives of my people, and the very dust upon which you now stand responds more lovingly to their footsteps than yours, because it is rich with the blood of our ancestors, and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“Sad-voiced winds moan in the distance. Grim fate seems to be on the Red Man's trail, and wherever he will hear the approaching footsteps of his fell destroyer and prepare stolidly to meet his doom, as does the wounded doe that hears the approaching footsteps of the hunter.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“The great, and I presume -- good, White Chief sends us word that he wishes to buy our land but is willing to allow us enough to live comfortably. This indeed appears just, even generous, for the Red Man no longer has rights that he need respect, and the offer may be wise, also, as we are no longer in need of an extensive country.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“Our dead never forget this beautiful world that gave them being. They still love its verdant valleys, its murmuring rivers, its magnificent mountains, sequestered vales and verdant lined lakes and bays, and ever yearn in tender fond affection over the lonely hearted living, and often return from the happy hunting ground to visit, guide, console, and comfort them.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“Then we will dwell apart in peace, for the words of the Great White Chief seem to be the words of nature speaking to my people out of dense darkness.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">] <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> || <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">
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<span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Common Threads: <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“Youth is impulsive. When our young men grown angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“The old men are all dead. Is it the young men who say no and yes. He who led the young men is dead.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">This echoes the white man’s forcible taking of the Indians’ land, representing a new wave of greed and lack of respect for that which is old. While Seattle’s speech holds hope for balance (almost retribution) and a threat of what is to come (extinction) for the whites, Joseph’s is just surrender. <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">What they want: <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">1) They want peace, and to end hostilities. <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“But let us hope that the hostilities between us may never return. We would have everything to lose and nothing to gain. Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">2) They want their ancestral land to be respected and protected <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">1) He wants his people safe <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“It is cold and we have no blankets.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">2) He wants to avoid conflict <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired. My heart is sad and sick.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">3) He wants to convey the plight of the dying Indian culture <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“The old men are all dead” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">SS: <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Sky=eternity <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> -shows the permanence of his people, and how death is only change. In the end, the white fate will be the same  <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“..whose teeming multitudes once filled this vast continent as stars fill the firmament.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“Not a single star of hope hovers above his horizon.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">The white man is doomed <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“..Even the white man..cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all. We will see.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“The White man will never be alone.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">I will fight no more forever: <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Blankets=tribal security <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> -the lack of blankets shows their complete vulnerability and lack of hope <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Rhetorical Devices <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">**Ironic deduction-** “This indeed appears just, even generous, for the Red Man no longer has rights that he need respect, and the offer may be wise, also, as we are no longer in need of an extensive country.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> -This first gains sympathy for the Native Americans, who have been reduced so drastically in number and mistreated. Next, it shows the ridiculousness of the offer by the whites, who want to buy the Native American’s homeland, and acknowledge none of the Native Americans’ rights. <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“Then we will dwell apart in peace, for the words of the Great White Chief seem to be the words of nature speaking to my people out of dense darkness.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“Grim fate seems to be on the Red Man's trail, and wherever he will hear the approaching footsteps of his fell destroyer and prepare stolidly to meet his doom, as does the wounded doe that hears the approaching footsteps of the hunter.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> -reinforces the pathetic appeal perfectly. It also brings an incredible reality to the gravity of the situation, while tying the lingual poetry of the Native American tradition. <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“Thus it has ever been. Thus it was when the white man began to push our forefathers ever westward.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> -Anaphora reinforces the importance of nature to the Native American culture. It also reinforces the eternal motif, showing the timelessness of their culture and the unchangeability of their existence. <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">**Rhetorical Questions** “He in reality he will be our father and we his children. But can that ever be? Your God is not our God!”.. “How then can we be brothers? How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness?” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> -Throws the delineation between the whites and Native Americans into sharp relief, and throws away the pretense of the assumed familiarity between the whites present and the Native American cause. Liken to Fredrick Douglas’s speech. <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“But why should I mourn at the untimely fate of my people? Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> -Shows exactly what is happening with the Native American people, and reinforces the motif of eternity. <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Rhetorical Devices <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Epistrophe <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“Sharp Tongue is dead. Hooltohoté is dead. The shamans are dead. It is young men who say yes or no. He who led the young is dead.” <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> -Shows the gravity and desperation. It shows that there is no time for flowery language, only cold facts. It also reinforces the fact that he’s surrendering under desperation, because there is nothing else to so, rather than because he wants to. <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Polysndeton <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">-creates choppy, short sentences. They reinforce the pathos appeal in their simplicity because they are honest and cannot be misconstrued. <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> || <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">“Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man whose God walked and talked with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all. We will see.”
 * <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">1) The idea of youth’s lack of windom **
 * <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Theme: Sacrificing tradition for the immediate will be detrimental in the long-term. **
 * <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Sacred Soil: **
 * <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">I Will Fight No more forever **
 * <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Motifs: **
 * <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">His dream: to have land independently of the whites, free from conflict. He wants respect for land, ancestors, and ancestral tradition. **
 * <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Figurative Language **
 * <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Anaphora **
 * <span style="COLOR: #677e6f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">His dream: For the fighting to stop, to end conflict, and to save the remainder of his people. **